User Stories

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Much like the familiar ‘armchair flying,’ executing a challenging instrument approach with X-Plane alerts me to any pitfalls and prepares me mentally. I have the confidence of familiarity once I am in the airplane and actually flying the approach.

My favorite experiences with X-Plane are with huge group flights. VatSIM allows you to see other pilots and also interact with ATC. As a student pilot, I find VatSIM invaluable for learning about ATC communications. VatSIM also opens up the social simulation flying world. Once signed up you can join a number of group flights organized by virtual airlines.

X-Plane is built to take advantage of today’s high-end PCs. The competitor’s product does not take advantage of a great PC capable of blazing performance, and a good graphics card is nearly useless. But X-Plane 10 is future-proof.

X-Plane is a wonderful simulator program doing anything you want. It’s amazing how technically faithful the operation of the 747 simulator is to that of the real aircraft. But don’t tell United that anyone can now fly the 747 by using X-Plane! It’s remarkable!

X-Plane’s program, Plane Maker, is a powerful tool allowing design engineers to look at the integrated design of the aircraft. All too often companies develop the aircraft in functional silos. This development process takes too long and does not allow synergies to be explored and exploited. X-Plane is the perfect learning tool for the engineers of today and tomorrow.

X-Plane’s Plane Maker program allows our Embry-Riddle team to very accurately evaluate the performance of the model and subsequent modifications. It’s a very powerful modeling tool making it easy to create aircraft with very specific flight characteristics.

X-plane is updated almost weekly. Not so with the other flight sims! Finally, but most important, I noticed that if I had a question and emailed support, I received an answer within the hour. I was hooked!

X-Plane is a real part of my life, from pure hobby to a high-end reference professional calculator. Over the last couple of years I began developing aircraft for X-Plane, finding it the best way to combine science with my hobby that is both challenging and satisfying.

I modeled the aircraft in PlaneMaker that my father flew often with Belgian livery, the C-119 Flying Boxcar aircraft. After giving my design to Austin I was honored that he included my model as part of the standard X-Plane package.

When planning for my first cross country flight I realized I was doing exactly the same thing I have been doing in X-Plane for years! There was no difference in flight preparation up to the point when I stepped into the actual aircraft. Once in the air, I was then confident in what I was doing – because I’d been there already, the night before, in X-Plane!